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As long as you are happy in life and are working towards your goals, there shouldn’t ever be a specific timeline to finish them by.

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I’ve made him “The One.” I mean, he made me happy and brought out a more confident and phenomenal side to me that I didn’t know existed. I want to be better, because of and for him. I love him.

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I guess your invasive, all-knowing algorithms haven’t quite figured out how to detect heartbreak via timeline posts.

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One aspect of Facebook that I will never get used to is how easy it is for people to come out of the woodwork and find me. You know the type of person.

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A deliberate notch in the timeline that makes you immune to forgetting

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Be able to see the tweet that caused a certain person to unfollow you.

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Everyone hates you and your stupid relationship. Everyone secretly makes fun of your constant back-and-forth of “love u baby” on your respective timelines. Everyone is going to quietly rejoice when the two of you finally break up — and you will.

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These are tremendous moments of personal evolution, enlightenment, empowerment, bravery, and yet Facebook seems to assume that the conclusion of every relationship is a sad, somber little secret.

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Musically, OK Go and Erykah Baduh have little in common; the artists’ core audiences, even less. But their recent, much-discussed videos are cut from the same cloth. As anyone with an open browser knows, OK Go’s “This Too Shall Pass” records an elaborate, Rube Goldberg-style chain reaction, which unfolds in an unbroken sequence over the song’s four-minute length. What keeps you watching isn’t so much the mechanism’s can-do engineering as the knowledge that a single untripped wire or errant bowling ball would require starting from scratch.